Metta Meditation Retreat
Dates: 3rd to 9th August 2026
Location: Origins Centre and Coorain, Balingup, Western Australia.
Cultivating an open, friendly, and benevolent attitude toward oneself, all beings, life and the world. Through graduated practice, our natural Metta state is cultivated and matures, nurtured by heartfelt feelings of understanding, warmth, and goodwill for our own and others’ experiences and the realities of life. Metta is a warm, strong heart, a deepened sense of love and kindness, a reclaiming of our loving bond and kinship with the broader web of life. Truly, Metta is falling in love with all this world and the Refuge that grows deep within because of this love.
This retreat is taught in the tradition of four stages, these are the four efforts, the building blocks of Metta and include:
- Re-establishing connection to the sources of Metta within our lived experience, the seeds of tenderness.
- Cultivating a Metta outlook: Opening the doorways of universal friendliness, becoming lovingly aware, and embracing an all-encompassing kindness.
- Moving into specifics: Taking willing responsibility for the work of healing and transformation into our own hands. Metta serves as the great equaliser.
- Metta to our influences: Developing a relationship to the pathways that carry the benefits forward into our daily lives. Transmitting and integrating the mind of Metta into the world.
Previous experience with mindfulness is essential to attend this retreat. Developing our Metta state is challenging, opening the doorway to personal experiences that require the support of our capacity for self-regulation and the calm and peacefulness of our mindfulness.
Registration
To join us for the retreat, please complete the registration form here at https://forms.gle/EaRKLDqd3eDFsetC6
